Digital Policy Alert

What Digital Policy Alert does

Digital Policy Alert (DPA) is a non-profit policy intelligence platform that tracks regulatory and policy developments across G20 countries, EU member states, and Switzerland. Operated as an initiative of the St.Gallen Endowment for Prosperity through Trade (SGEPT), the platform monitors legislatures, judiciaries, and executive branches and structures each policy intervention by policy area, regulatory instrument, affected economic activity, and implementation level. Coverage spans trade policy, digital regulation, AI governance, data protection, competition, cybersecurity, and subsidies.

The product surface consists of an Activity Tracker for real-time policy events, Aggregate Dynamics for trend analytics, country-, policy area-, and economic activity-level trackers, curated topical Threads (e.g., Regulating AI, Data Localisation, Digital Services Taxes), and an Analysis layer featuring the Zeitgeist Series briefings authored primarily by Founder Simon Evenett. Programmatic access is offered via a documented API and a Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration that enables AI agents and external systems to query policy and tariff datasets directly. Content is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license.

DPA's commercial posture is that of a public good: core tracking data is free to access, supplemented by donations to the parent SGEPT foundation and unspecified API/MCP service terms. The organization serves policymakers, trade officials, corporate executives, and academic researchers globally, with a small staff of 8 based in St. Gallen, Switzerland, led by CEO Johannes Fritz and Founder Simon Evenett (Professor of Geopolitics & Strategy at IMD, former WEF Trade & Investment Council Co-Chair).

Name

Digital Policy Alert

Legal name

St.Gallen Endowment for Prosperity through Trade

Website

https://digitalpolicyalert.org

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Digital Policy Alert is a St. Gallen-based non-profit platform that tracks regulatory and policy developments across G20, EU, and Swiss jurisdictions. It serves policymakers, corporate executives, and researchers with free public access plus API and MCP integrations for programmatic policy data retrieval.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Regulatory Intelligence Software

NAICS

Administration of Economic Programs (9261)

SIC

International Affairs (9721), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Digital Development & ICT4D / GovTech Technical Assistance (BPADAEAL)

Keywords

• Policy tracking platform
• Regulatory intelligence
• Trade policy monitoring
• Digital policy analysis
• Government compliance data

Headquarters

HQ city

St. Gallen

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Public Service / Non-profit Operations: Digital Policy Alert operates as a non-profit initiative of the St.Gallen Endowment for Prosperity through Trade, providing policy tracking services free of charge to the public. The organization accepts donations to support operations and makes content available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Digital Policy Alert is a policy intelligence platform that systematically tracks and analyzes regulatory and policy changes across G20 countries, EU member states, and Switzerland. It delivers structured policy data through a free public website along with programmatic API access and Model Context Protocol (MCP) integration enabling AI systems to consume the dataset directly. The platform serves policymakers, trade officials, corporate executives, and researchers seeking authoritative cross-jurisdictional regulatory monitoring.

Product overview

Digital Policy Alert is a unified policy monitoring and analysis platform that aggregates global regulatory developments across multiple jurisdictions. The core platform consists of an Activity Tracker, Country/Region tracking, Policy Area monitoring, and Economic Activities tracking modules, complemented by curated Threads on key topics like AI regulation, data localization, and digital services taxes. The platform offers Analysis capabilities through reports and blog posts, and provides developer access via API and MCP integrations. The service tracks policy changes across data governance, AI regulation, trade policy, cybersecurity, and other regulatory domains, and is an initiative of the St.Gallen Endowment for Prosperity through Trade.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Activity Tracker

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration1 record

Feature4 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• St.Gallen Endowment for Prosperity through Trade (SGEPT)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDigital Policy Alert is an initiative of the St.Gallen Endowment for Prosperity through Trade (SGEPT). SGEPT is the institutional home of the organization and provides organizational support. The endowment focuses on tracking digital, trade, industrial, subsidy, and investment policy.

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• S&P Global Market Intelligence (including Trade Data Monitor assets): Acquired Trade Data Monitor (the closest trade-tariff data service to DPA's tariff tracking) and offers broad regulatory and trade-policy intelligence to enterprises. Closest commercial analog on the trade/tariff data side where DPA is making early moves via its tariff MCP.
• Bloomberg Government: Established U.S.-focused policy and regulatory intelligence platform serving government affairs, lobbying, and procurement professionals. Broader and more commercial than DPA, but overlaps heavily on tracking of federal and state regulatory actions relevant to DPA's U.S. subnational coverage (e.g., Colorado AI bills, California CCPA actions).
• Wolters Kluwer Compliance Solutions (OneSumX / ELM Solutions): Major regulatory and compliance publisher tracking financial regulation, tax, and cross-sector compliance globally. Comparable on regulatory change monitoring for enterprise customers and provides a competitor benchmark for DPA's potential expansion into paid compliance workflows.
• The Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Policy & Regulation: Long-running policy and regulatory analysis service producing country-level and sector-level regulatory tracking for multinational enterprises. Similar target buyer (corporate executives, strategists) and similar cross-jurisdiction analytical coverage, though broader than DPA's deep dive into digital and trade policy instruments.
• LexisNexis Regulatory Compliance: Large-scale compliance and regulatory tracking suite serving legal, compliance, and risk teams with global coverage and workflow tools. Substantially broader and more established than DPA but overlaps on the core value proposition of timely monitoring of regulatory developments across multiple jurisdictions.
• Reuters Regulatory Intelligence: Regulatory tracking and compliance news service covering global financial and economic regulation with enterprise dashboards. Comparable on cross-jurisdiction coverage of policy and regulatory change but skewed toward financial services regulation; competes with DPA's regulatory monitoring for risk and compliance buyers.

Emerging players

• PolicyTracker: Specialized regulatory intelligence service focused on telecoms and digital sector policy worldwide. Comparable product DNA (real-time tracking, cross-jurisdiction policy monitoring, dashboard, analysis) targeted at sector-specific corporate and government buyers, relevant to DPA's digital regulation thread.
• PassFort / RegTech Associates analysis: Regulatory technology vendors focused on KYC/AML and compliance workflow automation that consume regulatory feeds as part of broader compliance products. Represents the "downstream integration" path that DPA's API and MCP products could plug into.

Direct peers

• Global Trade Alert: Also an initiative of the St.Gallen Endowment for Prosperity through Trade (SGEPT), founded by Simon Evenett. Tracks trade protectionism and interventionist policies worldwide using the same parent organization and overlapping analyst workflows; Digital Policy Alert explicitly references a Global Trade Alert tariff MCP, making it the closest direct sibling peer.
• Politico Pro: Subscription-based regulatory and policy intelligence service covering trade, technology, and a range of policy verticals with daily alerts and analysis. Overlaps directly with DPA's trade and digital policy tracking use cases and competes for the same policymaker and corporate affairs audience.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/digital-policy-alert

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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